#read

Obviously any fiction is going to be a combination of what is invented, what is overheard, what is experienced, what is experienced by people close to you, what you are told, what you have read, all mixed together into this kind of soup which, like any good soup, at the end you cannot really distinguish the ingredients. ↗

— David Leavitt

#cannot #close #combination #distinguish #end

The greatest pleasure of reading consists in re-reading. ↗

— Vernon Lee

#greatest #greatest pleasure #pleasure #re-reading #reading

I know what you're saying, but I already told you all the truth and I, I don't what, I don't know what else to do. I just do the best I can and tell you the only thing I can, and that's what I already told you many times. ↗

— Wen Ho Lee

#best #else #i #i can #just

My father had left behind an old piano. My sister was already going to school, my mother was out working, and I stayed at home alone with my adorable grandmother who understood nothing I said. It was so boring that I stayed at the piano all day long, and that saved my life. ↗

— Michel Legrand

#all day #alone #already #behind #boring

I didn't feel the need for anonymous affection, for people in the dark applauding. To me, it would be like writing a novel and then getting up every night and reading your novel. ↗

— Tom Lehrer

#anonymous #dark #every #every night #feel

When I'm reading material, if I'm a little bit afraid of a part and I'm willing to admit that to myself, then I'll do it, definitely. If I'm worried about being able to do it, to get it - I absolutely just love it. ↗

— Jack Lemon

#about #absolutely #admit #afraid #being

I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself. ↗

— Oscar Levant

#find #given #i #mind #myself

Free and fair access to books - to reading - is a right and one we should fight for. ↗

— Kate Mosse

#books #fair #fight #free #reading

I just got a rather nasty shock. In looking for something or other I came across the fact that one of my cats is about to be nine years old, and that another of them will shortly thereafter be eight; I have been labouring under the delusion they were about five and six. And yesterday I happened to notice in the mirror that while I have long since grown used to my beard being very grey indeed, I was not prepared to discover that my eyebrows are becoming noticeably shaggy. I feel the tomb is just around the corner. And there are all these books I haven't read yet, even if I am simultaneously reading at least twenty... ↗

— Edward Gorey

#aging #death #old-age #reading #age

Some critics of my work took the view that a satirist should defer to the finer feelings of his readers and respect widely held beliefs. ↗

— David Low

#critics #defer #feelings #finer #held